Melissa King, who was crowned Miss Delaware Teen USA in November, reportedly resigned from her post today amid claims that she appeared in a pornographic movie shortly after her 18th birthday last year.

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In this video, an excerpt from a documentary about foster care in Delaware, King, having recently been crowned Miss Teen Delaware International, discusses her rise to pageant success after having been a foster kid from age 12 to age 18.

Kolkata: Nearly six months after being taken into custody by the US Child Protection Services in New Jersey for alleged neglect by parents, the toddler son of an Indian couple in the USA has returned to an emotional reunion here.

Judges dealing with sensitive issues – including child custody – in the family courts have had hate mail sent to their homes, been physically attacked and been victims of attempted assaults in court buildings, according to information obtained by the Guardian.

One day after the FOX 9 Investigators broke the story of a Twin Cities day care business suspected of committing massive fraud, the state department that oversees such programs says it wants to crack down on cheaters.

Last year, Florida lawmakers put a new law on the books that expands the requirement for reporting child abuse in the state. But, the measure contained a glitch that resulted in double reports in some cases, and one lawmaker is hoping to fix that.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Jamison J. had shuffled through 28 foster homes, mental institutions and temporary shelters, by the time he was 17 years old. In the first of the homes, when he was 4, his foster mother terrorized him by shoving Jamison in front of her two snarling, growling dogs.

A proposed bill in Augusta seeks to clarify the circumstances under which health care providers should report cases of newborns who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in the womb. Maine lawmakers took up the measure today at a public hearing before the Health and Human Services Committee. Patty Wight reports.

The first stop for most California children entering foster care is supposed to be a quick one on their way to a family home. They can get a checkup, some nourishment and clean clothes while a foster family or relative is found.

It's a big win for foster parents in Colorado as the supreme court rules to give them a bigger role in important hearings involving children they care for.

Note: This is a decision that will have severe negative consequences for parents who are fighting or working hard to regain custody of their kids. Such a decision will enable a foster parent who falls in love with a kid to thwart your reunification efforts, intensify their power to alienate you, and decrease your chances of winning your case.

There are thousands of children in the United States looking for loving homes. According to ChildrensRights.org, on average kids are in the foster care system for 2 years. Ten percent five or more years in the system.

Note: What most of them want is to go home. Not a new home. Unfortunately most of these babystealers brainwash these so called unwanted kids into believing that they only hope they have for a normal life is passing them by every day that they get older.

A judge who called the crimes "despicable" sentenced an adoptive father Tuesday to 50 years to life in prison, the second lengthy sentence for the 40-year-old western Ohio man who admitted raping three boys in his care and allowing two other men to rape one of his adopted sons.

The Florida Department of Children and Families is using Facebook to broaden its reach on child abuse prevention, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The thinking is that young parents -- those who use social media a lot -- are the prime target for the message.

Turkey has embarked on a campaign to retrieve children of Turkish immigrant families living in Europe who are fostered by foreigners, and instead place them in homes where their cultural identity can be preserved.

A lawyer for the family of a 9-year-old Massachusetts rapper who appears in sexually suggestive videos is criticizing authorities’ decision to investigate whether the boy is the victim of possible child abuse or neglect.

SOCIETY demands someone be held to account when children are failed by their parents and perpetuates a "blame culture" and expectation that the state intervene, the Carmody child protection inquiry hears.

Systematic under-funding of child-welfare services on reserves means First Nations children today are essentially re-living the residential school nightmare that brought Canada so much shame, says the national chief of the country's largest aboriginal group.

The Fort Worth agency that handled the international adoption of a three-year-old Russian boy who died in West Texas last month is under investigation by Texas licensing officials, the Houston Chronicle learned Monday.

If you ever want to read a blog that will make you gag and puke, by one of those delusional and gullible foster/adoptive parents who believes everything that the nice social worker tells her, who will block you for leaving any comment critical of CPS or the Foster Care System, who absolutely hates me, who believes that her adopted kid who is a gift from God is possessed with the RAD Demon, and who believes that YOU are a monster so that she can feel good and justified about taking your kids then go on over to www.Foster2Forever.com and watch her spew her vile, jealous of the real women who can have their own babies and all of her evil bio-parent hating, foster care loving, "I'm entitled to your kid A. Because I can't have any of my own, and B. Because God wished this upon me" BS.

But I must warn you. Clicking on this link is not a good idea for the easily offended. It will either bring up an error message since she hates me and probably has me blocked, or the mother-load of holier than thou, stomach turning, CPS Loving, parent hating, worship me because I'm a higher life form than you because I"m a foster parent to your screwed up kids...

"Adoption is such a blessing! For those wanting to add to their families. For those birth mothers overwhelmed by motherhood. For the children who need a stable place to belong…forever."

Adoption is a blessing for those birth mothers overwhelmed by motherhood my ass. Just keep telling yourself that Penelope as you're throwing the real mothers into the lake of burning fire. While they're sitting there wishing they would just bleed to death from having their hearts being ripped out.

Of course, she may have links blocked from Legally Kidnapped, since I am a sworn enemy of hers, so I post it as a simple text link so that you may copy and paste into your browser.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Systematic under-funding of child-welfare services on reserves means First Nations children today are essentially re-living the residential school nightmare that brought Canada so much shame, says the national chief of the country's largest aboriginal group.

A little turtle begins to climb a tree slowly. After long hours of effort,
he reaches the top, jumps into the air waving his front legs, until
reaches heavily into the ground with a hard knock over his shell.
After recovering his consciousness, he starts to climb the tree again,
jumps again, and knocks the ground heavily again.

The little turtle insisted again and again after each knock, while a
couple of birds sitting at the edge of a branch, looking the turtle with
pain..suddenly the female bird says to the male: "Hey dear, I think it's
time to tell our little turtle he is adopted."

People in poverty always dangle from a financial cliff, but this March 1st, Republicans have maneuvered and manipulated the political landscape to set up sequestration, and the people who will be harmed most disastrously will be the poor. If the Democrats and Republicans had been able to reach a reasonable agreement to stave off automatic cuts, over a million jobs would not be predicted to be lost, and millions would not suffer. A snapshot of some of the effects includes:

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Roberto Aguilar-Ramirez, 51, of Parker, Arizona, pleaded guilty in federal district court in Phoenix on February 19, 2013, to abusive sexual contact with a minor. The minor victim was a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and the acts occurred on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Indian Reservation.

The Implementation Project is designed to reduce disproportionality through every-day practice and
decision-making changes in order to create mutually desired outcomes, and it is part of a larger Alaska child welfare initiative that is still being developed.

And the beat goes on. This article tells us that the new director of Child Protective Services in Texas testified before the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee recently begging for more money for the embattled agency (Dallas Morning News, 2/11/13).

Two West Valley women were arrested for allegedly abusing one of the women's 14-year-old son. According to West Valley Police, one of the women accused, previously fostered 18 children and hadn't received background screenings for over two years.

“Inconsistent and patchy”, “lengthy periods where potential risk to children was not assessed” and examples of “very poor decision-making which left vulnerable children at risk” – the latest Ofsted assessment of Norfolk County Council’s child protection services makes for difficult reading.

Homelessness is preventing the state's child welfare agency from reuniting 500 children with their families.

"Essentially, they are still not with their families for any reason other than poverty," Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz told the legislature's budget-writing committee Friday.

Russia’s efforts to depict the United States as a dangerous and even fatal place for children took a surprising turn Friday after the birth mother of a 3-year-old who died in Texas was thrown off a Russian train for getting into a violent, drunken argument with her boyfriend.

A recent investigation into the Los Angeles County child protective agency has exposed how an unskilled workforce and bureaucratic obstacles contributed to the preventable deaths of children. The brutal report, which reflects the worst fears of child advocates, needs to lead to changes in child protective agencies all over the state.

Gov. Paul LePage will let the $153 million supplemental budget approved overwhelmingly by lawmakers Thursday become law without his signature, he said Friday.
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The supplemental budget also restored half of a $1.4 million cut the LePage administration proposed for subsidies to families that adopt children from state care but don’t qualify for federal subsidies.

The US ambassador to Moscow called on Russia to stop "sensational exploitation" of the tragic death in Texas of an adopted Russian boy as parliament Friday issued a special appeal to the US Congress on the escalating scandal.

The pharmaceutical companies have broadened their horizon. It is not enough that they have 30% of middle and upper income white women addicted to antidepressants and that 20% of adults take some form of psychiatric medication. They now want to hook as many children as possible on psychiatric medication as well.

The Dee Why Grand Shopping Centre has enacted a zero tolerance policy on screaming children. After several noise complaints near the mall's play area, the mall posted this notice: "Stop. Parents please be considerate of other customers using the food court. Screaming children will not be tolerated in the centre." This has sparked a debate: are children playing too noisy or are the parents to blame? Or, is this a case of -- ahem, just kids being kids?

New rules governing the restraint of students in public schools have gone too far and need to be changed less than a year after they were instituted, according to educators who gathered Wednesday at the State House.

I’m not a creature of habit, not of good habits anyway, but over the past two years I’ve developed a healthy new one. Once a month I go to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for the Goethe Institut Boston’s late Sunday morning screening of a new German language film. My routine: take-out coffee at Peet’s, a movie, and brunch afterwards.

Reports that a 3-year-old adopted Russian child died in Texas last month set off a furor here Tuesday, with Russian officials declaring that the boy had been abused, although U.S. authorities said the death is still under investigation.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the Richland County Grand Jury has returned indictments against two people in connection with the unlawful access and use of confidential records from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).

A group of Russian diplomats have met in Texas the foster father of an adopted Russian boy, Maxim Kuzmin, who died there in January. No details of the conversation have been disclosed, but the diplomats said in the wake of the meeting that those guilty of the little boy’s death should be punished if he died as a result of beating and drugging.

More than a dozen families claiming mistreatment by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services gathered Monday in Nashville to share their stories with Rep. Sherry Jones, a longtime critic of the state’s child protection agency.

The father of three children has sued Sacramento County’s child protective services agency, claiming the kids were sexually assaulted by a registered sex offender who was living at their grandmother’s house.

Russian authorities have blamed "inhuman treatment" for the death of a 3-year-old boy adopted by an American family, but Texas officials say they are still investigating claims that the child was abused before his death.

Japan is likely to join the Hague convention on child-custody disputes this year, the last of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party approved related proposals Feb. 19.

It was like putting a match to a powder keg. Reports of the death in Texas of a Russian adoptee are producing an outpouring of outrage from Russian political elites aimed directly at the United States.

Mindy McCready threatened suicide after losing custody of her sons earlier this month, yet she was allowed to leave a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program just days before she apparently killed herself at her Arkansas home, her ex-boyfriend said Monday.

After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said.

At a time of heightened sensitivity to school safety, parents and school officials disagree over how to respond to toy guns and children who pretend to fire them.

Note: This article is the current result of the infestation of the radical feminist and the adoption of modern psychobabble in our public schools responding to the paranoia of the sheep during times of heightened media fear mongering by convincing them that they should be afraid of their own shadows.

They are apparently trying to remove all natural male aggression from the boys, which would essentially make them girls. Apparently they've come to the conclusion that that which makes boys boys is apparently a threat to the modern feminist belief that you should take it like a bitch no matter how much irrational and emotional bullshit she spews out at you. So if we can just tame our kids at a very young age, perhaps we can avoid all future conflict, abuse or bullying.

Five-digit bonuses. Gym memberships. Country club parties. Terrific perks in the private sector. But for a state contractor, who’s paid millions of tax dollars to find foster homes for kids, they’re embarrassing extravagances.

Few children in foster care ever return home
Very few children who are taken into foster care by child welfare services ever return to their own homes. A new study by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) found that just over 10% are returned to live with their parents, and of those almost a third end up in foster care again.
Note: Perhaps the social wreckers should focus more on helping the parents rather than destroying families. Helping parents is cheaper and better for the kid in the long run. Foster care is destructive to the kid. The kid comes out of it all fucked up. There are multiple reasons for this, including being drugged out, bounced around, abused in care,

Orphan beaten but not sexually abused
A VICTORIAN man who grew up in church-run orphanages says he was beaten and locked in a dark basement by priests and nuns, but never saw any evidence of sexual abuse.

Qld child protection inquiry highlights failures
The Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry has released a paper discussing the problem areas highlighted in the investigation so far. Tim Carmody says the system is routinely failing children. He's posed questions about how the system should change.
Note: This is an audio report. Not an article. I can't embed it here or I would.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

According to McGill University statistics, nearly 50 per cent of all new teachers in North America leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. As a teacher in my 39th year in a public high school, I understand the many reasons they do so.

A bill allowing closer scrutiny of child abuse deaths by an independent panel cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday despite objections from some that too much of the group's work would be done in secret.

A confidential 2011 report on the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has been made public by the Los Angeles Times. The department, which has been under fire for years for several instances in which children under its purview have suffered avoidable abuse and death, was found to have systemic, broad problems which crippled its effectiveness as an agency.

Maine has just been rated third worst in the country for sex trafficking. The Bangor Daily News says Maine is a top source for the entire East Coast to procure children for sex abuse. Those who know Maine's history are not surprised.

Note: The author of this article is not very well uneducated on the subject matter of the article. She does throw out a lot of names though, many of whom I am familiar with thanks to several news reports over the last couple years. And a commenter is accusing her of violating a gag order. I thought that was interesting.

Friday, February 15, 2013

RALEIGH A dozen state Health and Human Services employees who don’t normally qualify for overtime pay made an extra $580,000 in overtime over four years without written authorization, according to a state audit released Thursday.

HOPEFULLY, Nova Scotians can one day look back at Feb. 13, 2013, as the beginning of a responsible effort to finally acknowledge and heal the legacy of alleged child abuse at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children.

The current debate over ADHD medication focuses on whether the benefits -- improved concentration, better behavior, better performance in school -- outweigh the potential risks of medicating young children. Complicating all the abuse potential of ADHD drugs, with students using them off-label to get ahead in school and incidences of addiction, sometimes borne to tragic ends.

Few things are more discouraging or disconcerting than when people entrusted to take care of our most vulnerable citizens — in this case, foster children — are accused of systematic wrongdoing and blatant abuse of their caretaking role.

Nine nonprofit agencies providing foster care services in New Jersey are facing intense scrutiny following an audit that found they spent $4.2 million on extravagances such as bonuses and a country club holiday party, and awarded a generous roofing job to a relative.

The proposed reductions in funding for the Department of Health and Human Services are being positioned by the governor as prudent fiscal management of Maine’s resources in his effort to balance the budget.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

On Tuesday, a growing faction threatened to derail the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which passed the Senate with 22 dissenting Republican votes. A couple of months ago, Senate Republicans defeated a treaty on disabilities -- rebuking their own party's war heroes, Bob Dole and John McCain, who spoke in support of the measure. One can imagine that for their next stunt, Republicans will oppose a bill to help the elderly across the street, or vote against a resolution honoring motherhood and apple pie.

The births of almost half the world’s children are not registered, leaving them outside support and protection systems and uncounted in policy decisions. UNICEF supports the right of every child to be registered at birth, without discrimination.

A woman who once cared for missing foster child Rilya Wilson was sentenced Tuesday to 55 years in prison for kidnapping and child-abuse convictions, closing a case that spanned more than a decade and triggered changes in Florida’s child-welfare system.

A shooter at a Delaware courthouse killed two women and wounded police officers before being fatally shot by police. The shooting began before he reached the metal detectors at the Delaware courthouse.

A guest speaker at Berkshire Community College in Northern Berkshire, Massachusetts recently had some interesting marriage and divorce advice to pass along to male students, their sons, grandsons, nephews — basically any male descendants and all male relations.

The state can’t hold on to child abuse investigators because they are overwhelmed and underpaid, the agency’s chief said Monday in a plea for help to the Legislature.

Note: They also destroy families. There is a lot of personal guilt associated with that for good people who become babystealers. Generally, you have to find a sadistic f*** who gets off on this sort of thing if you want to keep them in it for the long haul.

The lone U.S. adoption agency accredited in Kyrgyzstan is shutting down due to financial troubles, a sudden new setback for about 15 American families battling since 2008 to complete adoptions there. At the same time, another U.S. agency, which specializes in adoptions from Russia, also is closing.

Lawyers for the Department of Children's Services say the agency's files are so scattered in dozens of offices throughout the state that it would require thousands of miles of travel at great expense to produce records of children it served who later died.

Note: We shouldn't expect CPS to keep these kinds of records organized or anything, should we?

According to the Lakota People's Law Project, on Wednesday, February 6, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” aired a report by Peabody award winning journalist Laura Sullivan: “South Dakota Tribes Accuse State of Violating Indian Welfare Act”. Representatives Ed Markey (D-MA) and Ben Luján (D-NM) called for more information from the State of South Dakota and for a Congressional hearing.

Note: This is probably the currently top trending child welfare related news story. It seems like every other link I look at over the last few days had to do with this particular case.

This is interesting because when child welfare related stories take off like this, it's usually because of some horrible abuse in foster care case such as a kid dying or Jerry Sandusky or something like that.

Colorado's plan to reform the child- welfare system and significantly reduce child abuse and neglect includes sending social workers and nurses into the homes of at-risk families and providing a network of help — ranging from teaching parents about safety hazards to helping them find jobs.

Note: Yep, this is for the families that they don't have enough evidence to build a solid case for a snatching. The trick is to watch them, wait for them to screw up in the slightest way then swoop in and snatch the kid.

The last days of life of three Tennessee children, the near death of a fourth child and a glimpse into the state child protection agency's involvement with each of their families were revealed in state records made public last week.

A Middleton foster-care company may have managed to overcharge taxpayers by an alleged $6.1 million by exploiting weaknesses in the financial oversight exercised by counties and the state, the State Journal has found.

As news of alleged fraud at Community Care Resources spreads through the foster care community, some foster families connected to the agency contend the accusations against owner Dan Simon and his wife, Mary, can't possibly be true, while others say they've long had suspicions about the couple's business practices.

The United States has agreed to cooperate with the Investigative Committee on child abuse cases concerning adopted Russian children, the committee's official spokesman Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti on Friday.

In what critics are seeing as an ultimate power grab, state officials in Connecticut are pushing forward a bill to require state investigations of children like never before – calling for a “confidential behavioral health assessment” of every public school student in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, and every homeschool student at ages 12, 14 and 17.

Children in British Columbia with complex care needs that can manifest themselves in violent rages deserve more from the child welfare system than being locked in windowless rooms or tranquilized by doctors, says a report detailing the failed care of an 11-year-old boy who was zapped by an RCMP Taser.

Holy Shit people, we have officially hit the mother-load of judgmental, self righteous hypocrites spouting their vile hatred of the imperfect parent who had a momentary laps of reason and reacted in ways that the perfect parent never would have. This imperfect parent needs a little help in coping with her stress levels. Perhaps a little respite care so that she can occasionally get that desperately needed break, perhaps a parenting class. But along come the perfect parents, or rather the judge, jury and executioner of the feminazi mindset and you might as well rename her Casey Anthony the 2nd and condemn her to burn in hell for all of eternity.

Perhaps we should put her right up there on the upside down cross with the worst of them. Lock her up and throw away the key! Hang her! Burn her at the stake!

Oh... I'm sorry. Perhaps I should tell you what I'm talking about....

So there is a video that came to my attention on Facebook regarding a mother who lost it on her kid. I will give you the link in a minute, but first I want to warn you that what you are about to see in this video is not nearly as disturbing as some of the comments that are being left on the following witch hunt of a Facebook post.

I will post a few of my favorite screen shots in order to demonstrate the point. But first, I must warn you, what you are about to see and hear is disturbing. As you are about to undertake a journey through the deepest darkest pit of the twilight zone, or rather you are about to explore the lowest form of political correctness and self-righteous hypocrisy of the anti-abuse people. These are the people who can do no wrong. These are the people, who by virtue of their perfectness has the right to judge you in the court of public opinion and sentence you to a slow and agonizing death after a long bout of rotting in a jail cell.

Yes folks, the vile hatred is spewing. The total justification for the governments spending of billions of tax payer dollars on a failed and fraud of a child protection industry that jumps at the drop of a pin, or rather the child loving bandwagon jumpers have found another poor unsuspecting mother to gang up on in support of their cause.

Ah yes. You gotta love the perfect people, do you not?

This last two comments is also a perfect demonstration of the level of ignorance that anybody who wishes to reform the child welfare system faces when trying to convince the public to support their cause.

Now I do not at all condone what this mother did. I do, however suggest that we at least attempt to bring about some sort of a cultural change as to the public opinion of frustrated parents who could possibly be in desperate need of a little help in coping with the stresses of life. After all, if you honestly think that those kids would have a better chance in foster care then you are sadly mistaken.

If you would never do something like this, then you are obviously a much stronger person than she is. That does not make her a monster. It makes her a stressed out, fed up parent who could perhaps benefit from a little bit of Respite Care so that she can occasionally get the much needed break. Perhaps she could benefit from some counseling so that she could learn some strategies to help her cope with the difficult times so that she doesn't have to abuse the kid.

Instead... The Self-Righteous Lynch Mob of Perfect Parents would rather make her suffer.

So where you ask is the video that is causing such hatred and discontent, calls for public floggings and hangings?

Here it is. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1868227992365 But I warn you. The good people who cry out against child abuse are a cruel and evil lot of violent lynch mobbing goody two shoes who would sooner rip your family apart than as much as offer you a helping hand.